Deficiency of Angulin-2/ILDR1, a Tricellular Tight Junction-Associated Membrane Protein, Causes Deafness with Cochlear Hair Cell Degeneration in Mice

• Tomohito Higashi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tomohito Higashi, Tatsuya Katsuno

  Current address: Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

  Affiliation Division of Cell Biology, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan

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• Tatsuya Katsuno ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Tomohito Higashi, Tatsuya Katsuno

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

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• Shin-ichiro Kitajiri ,

  * E-mail: kitajiri@ent.kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp (SK); furuse@nips.ac.jp (MF)

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

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• Mikio Furuse

  * E-mail: kitajiri@ent.kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp (SK); furuse@nips.ac.jp (MF)

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Division of Cell Biology, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan, Division of Cerebral Structure, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Aichi, Japan, Department of Physiological Sciences, SOKENDAI (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies), Okazaki, Aichi, Japan

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